Etymologies

From Latin perspicuus, from perspicere, to see through; see perspicacious.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

From Latin perspicuus, in turn from perspiciō ("see through"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

Similarly, to some numerical and geometrical functions, that can be described and grasped easily, the combinators that are frequently encountered can be characterized as perspicuous transformations on terms.

Proofs should be "perspicuous," that is, the structure and flow of the proof's ideas should be graspable in large measure, and the over-arching ideas should be strung together with a series of lemmas to make the proof easy to follow in broad and detailed examination.

The doctrine can, of course, expand even further to become a general principle of effective rhetoric or even of scientific language, where it appears under the rubric of clear, "perspicuous" representation, modeled on perspectival, rationally constructed imagery.

It is often stated that Scripture is "perspicuous" (clear) and able to be understood in the main by the committed, regenerate layman, and that by comparing Bible passage with Bible passage, the truth can always be found.

But, somehow, for Obamalogists like DTM, all the overt quid pro quos won by the parasites IN “backroom deals” are betrayed by the expertly constructed rhetoric which reveal only to the most perspicuous reader of official texts, the super-coy machinations of O which will deliver HCR that is good HCR behind the backs of very powerful patrons who oppose HCR.

There has come to you from Allah a (new) light and a perspicuous Book - wherewith Allah (God) guides all who seek His good pleasure to ways of peace and safety, and leads them out of darkness, by His will, unto the light - guiding them to a path that is straight.